Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> There is some timeout code already in the buildfarm client. It was
> originally put there to help us when we got CVS hangs, a not infrequent
> occurrence in the early days, so it's currently only used if configured
> for the checkout phase, but it could easily be used to create a build
> timeout which would kill the whole process group if the timeout expired.
> It wouldn't work on Windows, and of course it won't solve whatever
> problem caused the hang in the first place, but it still might be worth
> doing.
+1 --- at least then we'd get reports of failures, rather than the
current behavior where the animal just stops reporting.
regards, tom lane
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